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Suspected Islamists kill Bangladeshi gay activist working for US embassy
Suspected Islamist militants hacked to death a leading Bangladeshi gay rights activist employed by the U.S. embassy and a friend in an apartment in Bangladesh's capital on Monday, police said.The killings took place two days after a university professor was slain in similar fashion on Saturday in an attack claimed by Islamic State.Five or six assailants went to the apartment of Xulhaz Mannan, 35, an editor of Rupban, Bangladesh's first magazine for gay, bisexual and transgender people, and attacked him and a friend with sharp weapons, Dhaka city police spokesman Maruf Hossain Sordar said.They entered the apartment disguised as couriers, he said, quoting witnesses.The assailants also wounded a security guard. Witnesses said the attackers shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest)" as they fled the scene.Mannan was employed by the U.S. embassy, working for the U.S. Agency for International Development, the State Depertment in Washington said.State Department spokesman John Kirby said the United States was "outraged" by the "barbaric attack." He called Mannan, "a beloved member of our embassy family and a courageous advocate for LGBTI rights - human rights, actually.""LGBTI" stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual and intersex.A spokesman for the White House's National Security Council, Ned Price, said the United States strongly urged the Bangladeshi government to ensure the perpetrators were brought to justice.Other attacks took place in the country on Monday, but it was not immediately clear whether those assaults were carried out by Islamist militants.Two men on a motorcycle shot dead a former prison guard in front of Kashimpur jail, on the outskirts of Dhaka, said Khandakar Rezaul Hasan, chief of the local police station.A teacher was hacked to death in the southwestern district of Kustia, police said.The M
IS claims murder of Bangladesh Hindu tailor
A Hindu tailor in majority-Muslim Bangladesh has been hacked to death, in an attack claimed by Islamic State. />Bangladesh police investigate the killing of 50-year-old Nikhil Chandra Joardar.They say three people on motorbikes arrived at the Hindu tailor's shop, dragged him out and hacked him to death.Islamic State claims responsibility and says he committed blasphemy against Prophet Mohammad.At the shop, relatives give their account of what happened to the police.Security experts doubt the links between Islamic State, based in the Middle East, and militants operating on the ground in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.They say claims of support, however, create the impression they are collaborating.
Bangladesh Bank officials say to meet NY Fed, SWIFT to recover cyber stolen money
Bangladesh's central bank chief will meet the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a senior executive from global financial messaging service SWIFT next week to seek the recovery of about $81 million stolen by hackers, officials in Dhaka said.
May 4, 2016 | 05:27 pm PT
Technicians from SWIFT left Bangladesh Bank exposed to hackers-police
Bangladesh's central bank became more vulnerable to hackers when technicians from SWIFT, the global financial network, connected a new bank transaction system to SWIFT messaging three months before a $81 million cyber heist, Bangladeshi police and a bank official alleged.
May 8, 2016 | 05:04 pm PT
Bangladesh village doctor hacked to death in suspected Islamist attack
Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a village doctor and wounded a university teacher in Bangladesh on Friday, in what police suspected was the latest in a series attacks by Islamists in the majority-Muslim nation.
May 20, 2016 | 02:22 am PT
One Rohingya Muslim shot dead in mass escape from Thai detention center
Thai police shot dead a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar on Monday during a dramatic mass escape of detainees from an immigration camp in southern Thailand, police said.
May 23, 2016 | 02:02 am PT
Bangladesh Bank heist trail goes cold in Manila as probes falter
More than three months have passed since $81 million was stolen in a brazen cyber-heist from Bangladesh's central bank and sent to Manila - yet authorities in the Philippines appear no closer to nabbing those who laundered most of the money through a bank and casinos here.
May 23, 2016 | 06:15 pm PT
Bangladesh panel finds possible insider role in c.bank cyber theft
Officials of Bangladesh Bank may have been involved in a brazen theft of $81 million from its account with the New York Federal Reserve Bank in February, the head of a government-appointed panel investigating the cyber heist told reporters on Monday.
May 30, 2016 | 04:04 am PT
Gunmen attack restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic quarter in Bangladesh, foreigners among hostages
Seven Italian nationals are thought to be among the hostages taken by gunmen who stormed a cafe popular with foreigners in the capital of Bangladesh on Friday, Italian state television said quoting the Italian ambassador to Bangladesh.
July 1, 2016 | 05:12 pm PT
Bangladesh police storm restaurant to rescue hostages, gunfight on
Bangladeshi police stormed a Dhaka restaurant on Saturday to free 20 hostages, including several foreigners, that were trapped inside after gunmen launched an attack on it late on Friday night, an official said.
July 1, 2016 | 07:12 pm PT
Deadly siege at Dhaka cafe ends
A deadly siege at a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital ends, as relatives of hostages wait for news about their loved ones.
July 2, 2016 | 02:30 am PT
Twenty foreigners killed in Dhaka cafe attack in Bangladesh
All 20 victims of an attack on an upmarket cafe in Dhaka were foreigners, the spokesman for the Bangladesh army said on Saturday.
July 2, 2016 | 02:33 am PT
Bangladesh police say may have shot hostage, missed attack warnings
Police shot dead the pizza chef of a Dhaka restaurant, mistakenly thinking he was one of the militants who killed 20 people.
July 5, 2016 | 05:16 pm PT
Singapore jails four Bangladeshi men for terrorism financing
A Singapore court jailed four Bangladeshi men in a terrorism financing case that has put the city-state's most marginalized migrant-worker community in the spotlight.
July 12, 2016 | 05:51 am PT
Bangladesh finds 18 bodies after ferry capsizes
Overcrowding is a factor.
September 22, 2016 | 01:03 am PT
China to sign some $24 bln in loans to Bangladesh as Xi visits
China plans to finance around 25 projects, including a 1,320 megawatt (MW) power plant in Bangladesh.
October 13, 2016 | 07:07 pm PT
Bangladesh in the market for 300,000 tons of Vietnamese rice
A new deal signed by the two governments should ease the pressure on Vietnam's flagging rice shipments that have fallen to multi-year lows.
May 24, 2017 | 03:08 am PT
Far from Texas, Indian floods kill 500
Texas may be reeling amid the worst flooding it's seen in 50 years but, in northeast India, torrential rain has killed more than 500 people, and there may be worse to come.
August 30, 2017 | 05:40 pm PT
UN says 87,000 refugees arrive in Bangladesh from Myanmar
'It is bigger than the last time.'
September 4, 2017 | 12:46 am PT
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